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SAMUEL D. Hover, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Leners Parent NQ. 80485, dans Juzg es, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUBBER HEADS FOR PENCILS.

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TO ALL WHOM I'I MAY CONGERN:

v Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. Hover, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and 4StaterofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Heads for Pencils; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,"reference being'had tothe ,accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and toA the letters of reference marked thereon, likeV lettersdindi; eating like parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe itg. My inveution consists in making a. head or cap for pencils and pens of a combination o f materials, so that oneAA part shall be adapted'to erasing pencil-marks, and the other part to the erasure of ink-marks, as hereinafter more fully explained. i

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pencil, with my improved head applied.4

p Figures 2, 3, and 4 are longitudinal sections of heads variously modified.

, In the manufacture of this class of articles it has been customary hitherto to make them of the ordinary rubber used for erasing pencil-marks, and these were adapted to no other purpose or use. It is to remedy these defects, and produce a. better article, one-that is adapted to a greater range of operations, that my invention is intended.

To construct my improved head, I provide a mould, having a cavity of the forni of the'head, as represented in g. 1, in which the neck ais made tubular, toiit on the end of a. pencil, as usual with this class'of articles. The two kinds are used in forming the head B. They are so arranged as toiform one portion of the head of one kind, and another prtion 'of the. other kind, thus combining in the one Vheadboth the ordinary pencil-eraser, and also the ink-eraser, o representing the former and e the latter in the various, figures. The ink-eraser portion may be arranged to, occupy one side, as shown by e in fig. 2, in which vcase it will b'e seen that the head presents an ink-eraser on one face, and a. pencil-eraser on the opposite face, while the two remain- .ing sides and the end will present a surface having the two combined. Thus I 'am enabled to produce a pencilhead possessing advantages never beforepresented to the public, and which can be sold at the same rates as the ordinary article.

Having thus described my invention, what I clairn, is- The pencil and pen-head or tip, composed of the pencil-mark eraser o and the pen-mark eraser e combined,

substantially as described. Y

SAMUEL I). HOVEY.

Witnesses:

EDWARD Sr. Jour, Jos. L. Porrun. 

